ROCHESTER — State Rep. Warren Groen filed an election law complaint with the Attorney General’s Office against state Rep. Anne Grassie, claiming she illegally voted in a ward she didn’t live in during the state primary election.

Both Groen and Grassie, who have been serving as state representatives at large before redistricting, are running for re-election. Groen is running uncontested in Ward 3, while Grassie is running against state Rep. Susan DeLemus in Ward 4.

Last month, Grassie went before the Ballot Law Commission in response to a complaint filed by state Rep. Cliff Newton claiming Grassie lives in Ward 6 while running as a state representative in Ward 4.

While Grassie has been spending time at her home on 9 Central Ave. in Ward 6, she is currently renovating a Brock Street residence, where she intends to live by Election Day and while serving in the next term. She and her husband have owned both homes, including the one on 146 Brock St., for many years, she told Foster’s in early October.

During the hearing on Sept. 20, The Ballot Law Commission unanimously sided with Grassie, and denied the petition challenging her residency — “She testified that her intent is to live at 146 Brock Street, but that due to the ongoing renovations, she has been spending time at the Central Avenue house,” according to the official order from the commission, dated Sept. 21.

According to Grassie, who has served nine terms in the House of Representatives, she has previously listed her official address as being on Central Avenue. On May 31, before filing for candidacy for re-election, she changed her voter registration to being in Ward 4, according to the city clerk’s office.

But Groen claims that since Grassie wasn’t living in Ward 4 at the time, voting as a Ward 4 resident in September was a violation of state law.

“I am disappointed by Rep. Grassie’s choice to vote in a district where she doesn’t even live,” said Groen in a statement on Monday. “When she signed up for office in June, she signed an affidavit that she lived in Ward 4, even though she clearly did not. Beyond that, she voted in Ward 4 in September, even though she wasn’t living there at the time. That’s against the law.”